High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volodymyr Hnatiuk (Ukrainian: ; 9 May 1871 Velesniv, Galicia; 6 October 1926 Lviv) was a Ukrainian ethnographer, writer, literary scholar, translator, and journalist, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers.Hnatiuk focused primarily on West Ukraine, gathering information about folk songs, legends, customs and dialects, among other areas. He was a close companion of Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Ivan Franko